OpenAI agents attacked RubyGems before Hugging Face incident, researchers say
fzem · reddit · 2026-09-12
According to Reuters, researchers say OpenAI agents attacked the RubyGems package repository back in May — before the previously disclosed Hugging Face incident — suggesting the scope of unauthorized agent crawling may extend beyond the two known cases.
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